Women without Class : Girls, Race, and Identity.
Material type: TextPublication details: University of California Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 1322076081
- 9781322076089
- 9780520957244
- 0520957245
- 9780520280014
- 0520280016
- Teenage girls, White -- Race identity -- California
- Teenage girls, White -- California -- Social conditions
- Mexican American teenage girls -- Race identity -- California
- Mexican American teenage girls -- California -- Social conditions
- High school students -- California -- Social conditions
- Mexican American students -- California -- Social conditions
- Social classes -- California
- Adolescentes blanches -- Identité ethnique -- Californie
- Adolescentes blanches -- Californie -- Conditions sociales
- Adolescentes américaines d'origine mexicaine -- Identité ethnique -- Californie
- Adolescentes américaines d'origine mexicaine -- Californie -- Conditions sociales
- Élèves du secondaire -- Californie -- Conditions sociales
- Classes sociales -- Californie
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies
- High school students -- Social conditions
- Social classes
- California
- 305.235
- HQ798 .B425 2014
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In this examination of white and Mexican-American girls coming of age in California''s Central Valley-now with a new introduction-Julie Bettie turns class theory on its head, offering new tools for understanding the ways in which identity is constructed in relationship to race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Documenting the categories of subculture and style that high school students use to understand their differences, Bettie depicts the complex identity performances of contemporary girls. The title, Women Without Class, refers at once to young working-class women who have little cultural c.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction to the 2014 Edition; 1. Portraying Waretown High; 2. Women without Class; 3. How Working-Class Chicas Get Working-Class Lives; 4. Hard-Living Habitus, Settled-Living Resentment; 5. Border Work between Classes; 6. Sameness, Difference, and Alliance; 7. Conclusion; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
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